Niel Brandt's Astronomy 1 Page: Astronomical Universe

• Syllabus
• How to do well in this course
• Department integrity policy and college integrity policy - These apply in this course!
• Basic information about and important concepts for the final exam
• Niel's home page - For information about your teacher

• Class notes are available from Yournotes.com
• Class notes are also available from this page
• `Slides' for class 1 - A quick tour of the Universe
• `Slides' for class 15 - Supernova remnants
• `Slides' for class 19 - Globular clusters and spiral galaxies
• `Slides' for class 21 - Examples of galaxies
• `Slides' for class 22 - Galaxies in clusters and groups
• `Slides' for class 25 - Active galaxies and quasars
• `Slides' for class 28 - Optical telescopes
• `Slides' for class 29 - Telescopes at non-optical wavelengths
• `Slides' for class 31 - The Big Bang
• `Slides' for class 37 - A tour of the Solar System
• `Slides' for class 38 - The terrestrial planets
• `Slides' for class 39 - The Jovian planets and Pluto
• `Slides' for class 41 - Moons of the Solar System
• `Slides' for class 43 - The Formation of the Sun and Planets
• `Slides' for class 44 - Other Stars, Other Planets, and ET

• Quiz 1
• Quiz 2
• Quiz 3
• Quiz 4
• Final exam score distribution and numerical scores

• Letter grades for course

• Sky & Telescope weekly news bulletin
• NASA news today!
• The Universe today
• Astronomy at space.com
• Astronomy at spaceref.com
• The latest discoveries from the Hubble Space Telescope
• Tour the cosmos

• Powers of ten #1 / Powers of ten #2
• Scientific notation review
• A Private Universe project #1 / A Private Universe project #2
• Eclipses #1 / Eclipses #2
• The laws of Kepler and Newton
• The electromagnetic spectrum
• Seeing the whole symphony

• Images and movies from Big Bear Solar Observatory
• Solar X-ray pictures from the Yokoh satellite
• The Sun: A pictorial introduction
• The sunspot cycle and the solar cycle
• Stars and the main sequence
• Planetary nebulae - A cosmic funeral
• White dwarfs
• Supernovae
• Pulsars
• X-ray binary stars #1 / X-ray binary stars #2
• Black holes #1 / Black holes #2
• Falling into a black hole

• The Milky Way Galaxy
• Views of the Milky Way across the electromagnetic spectrum
• Globular clusters
• Digital pictures of bright, famous, Messier galaxies
• Colliding/interacting galaxies
• Hubble Space Telescope image of a spectacular galaxy collision
• Optical images of clusters of galaxies
• X-ray images of clusters of galaxies
• Dark matter
• Active galaxies #1 / Active galaxies #2 / Active galaxies #3
• Simulated flight through a quasar

• The Hobby Eberly Telescope: Penn State's giant optical telescope
• The Keck observatory
• The giant Arecibo radio telescope
• The Very Large Array: A radio interferometer
• Chandra: A current X-ray astronomy observatory
• The sky seen at many different wavelengths #1
• The sky seen at many different wavelengths #2
• Multiwavelength astronomy: Shedding a new light on the Universe
• Illustration of Hubble expansion
• The Cosmic Microwave Background radiation #1
• The Cosmic Microwave Background radiation #2
• COBE satellite home page
• Introduction to cosmology
• Cosmos in a computer
• Frequently asked questions in cosmology (fairly challenging)

• Views of the Solar System
• NASA Solar System exploration
• NASA's planetary photojournal
• The Nine Planets
• The Solar System live
• The Barringer meteorite crater
• Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9: Collision with Jupiter
• The protoplanetary disk of Beta Pictoris
• More young stellar disks
• Pulsar planets
• California & Carnegie extrasolar planet search
• A brief history of extrasolar planets
• NASA's Kepler mission - A search for habitable planets
• NASA's terrestrial planet finder mission
• The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)

• Sky & Telescope magazine's interactive sky chart
• Hawaiian Astronomical Society constellation pages
• The constellations and their stars
• Interactive star chart starting at Ursa Major
• HST image of Betelgeuse

• Dr. Brandt's course on black holes for non-science majors - Next offered in Spring 2003
• See the stars with the Penn State astronomy club #1
• See the stars with the Penn State astronomy club #2
• University Testing Services (UTS) - These people score your exam bubble sheets
• University learning resource center
• Office for disability services
• The PSU faculty senate policies for students

• Cool astronomy picture of the day
• Pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope
• Web site for the Seeds textbook
• The "bad astronomy" page - Helps to remove misconceptions about astronomy
• Science fiction stories with "good" astronomy and physics

• Dick McCray's Astro 1120 page (U. Colorado; many excellent figures and animations)
• Barbara Ryden's Astro 161 page (Ohio State; Solar System)
• Barbara Ryden's Astro 162 page (Ohio State; Stellar, Galactic and Extragalactic)

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